Symbiosis—Is Collaboration the New Innovation? Alice Meadows, Director – Community Engagement & Supportorcid.org/0000-0003-2161-3781 @alicejmeadowsAllen Press Emerging Trends Seminar, Washington DC, April 21, 2016

Publishing collaborations

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Names are messy!

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Unique Contribution

Of the more than 6 million authors in a major journal citations and abstracts database,+2/3 share last name and single initial with another author. An ambiguous name in the same database refers on average to 8 people.

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Uniquely identifying contributors

“The ability to uniquely identify contributors is a deceptively simple

concept which, if realised, could enable forms of real-time understanding of

scientific research that up to now have been extremely costly (if not

impossible).”

--Jonathan Kram, Wellcome Trust

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Our vision

ORCID’s vision is a world where all those involved in research,

scholarship, and innovation are uniquely identified

and connected to their contributions

across time, disciplines, and borders.

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Persistent digital identifiers to distinguish researchers from each otherMember-built integrations for automated links between researchers and their activities/affiliationsA hub for machine-readable connections between identifiers for organizations, funding, outputs, and people

ORCID provides✔ Plumbing for research information

✔ Tools to build trust in digital information

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ORCID facts and figures

• 2.15m+ live ORCID iDs • Associated with ~5.9m DOIs• 430k+ linked to one or more works• 465k+ linked to one or more employment• 500k+ linked to one or more education

• ~500 organizational members• Five national consortia, three regional• 65% research institutions, 20% publishers & associations• 50%+ Europe, 30% North America• ~250 integrations

Built on collaboration (1)Founded by organizations from across scholarly communications:• Associations• Funders (Wellcome)• Publishers (Elsevier, Nature, Wiley)• Repositories• Research institutions

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Built on collaboration (2)Community-driven and led:• Board, working groups, API User

Group• Engagement and outreach activities• Open resources to encourage sharing

and re-use

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ORCID collaborates with other organizations to ensure adoption and use

of research information standards, including

persistent identifiers, and enable interoperability

Built on collaboration (3)

Built on collaboration (4)Collect & Connect:• Clarify goals and expectations across sectors• Standardize and improve the user

experience • Improve trust in connections between ORCID

and other identifiers • Increase efficiency and quality of

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Collect & Connect

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Collect Display

ConnectSynch

Authenticate!

Collect & Connect for Publishers

• Request/require ORCID iDs for authors • Collect ORCID iDs via the ORCID API (authenticated ORCID

iDs), so that researchers are not asked to manually type in or search for their iD

• Display – embed ORCID iDs into article metadata; publish in online versions, and ideally in print versions of the publication

• Connect/synchronize - include ORCID iDs in Crossref metadata, so that Auto-update can be implemented including verification that the iD was authenticated

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• ORCID publishers’ open letter AGU (Mar 2016) eLife (Jan 2016) EMBO (Feb 2016) Hindawi IEEE PLOS Science (Mar 2016) The Royal Society (Jan 2016) + nine more since launch including JMIR & ScienceOpen which required ORCID iDsstarting 2014

Collaboration in practice (1)

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Collaboration in practice (2)

ORCID Record

publisher universitylibraries

funders

submit manuscr

iptACCEPTED!Include in metadata

obtain DOI

notify preprin

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auto-update ORCID

NEW INFO!

faculty profiles

inform grant

outputs

update profiles

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Collaboration in practice (3)PEER REVIEW: recognition for peer review service

Community group developed new standard citation (CASRAI)

ORCID early adopters: Live: F1000, AGU/eJournal Press, Publons In progress: Aries Systems, Peerage of Science

https://members.orcid.org/api/peer-review-getting-started

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Other collaboration opportunities

• Organization IDs• Consultations• Industry best practices

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